Well, my new shipment of PFD and dark fabrics arrived today from Robert Kaufman. The big ticket item is 100 yards of their 100% polyester Nu-suede fabric. It feels like a moleskin and does fray a bit. But is so very soft and luscious – it looks like a great fabric for warm blouses or else jacket/skirt/slack combos. Yes, garment sewing. Good thing my best friend taught sewing for 30 years! Here are a couple pictures of work in process and finished goods from the first 30 yard roll:
Started the first piece with an all-over pink color, then rag-rolled an 'orange creamsicle’ color over it.
The second piece shows a yard of fabric in process. It got turquoise dye (Pro-Chem’s Transperse turqouise) all over, then it was spr
ead out on plastic (my favorite heavy vinyl from Jo-Ann’s.) Then I sprinkled it with salt and waited for it to dry. That piece sold right away, so I did it again with a three-yard piece, which is shown in the third photograph. That shows it mid-way through the heat-press process, which is when the color changes. Transperse is Pro-Chem’s name for their disperse dyes designed for transfer printing. The main problem with the whole process is the investment into the heat pr
I still have more to learn, so I’d better get to it! Thanks for looking!
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So - I think of these dyes as something applied to paper, then heat transferred to polyester. But you are directly applying and heat setting? Hmmmm - who woulda thunk it. Thanks for the ideas. I was just reading a new book yesterday, with a section on using these dyes, and thinking I needed to pull them out. This fabric is far more interesting than your basic polyester. betsy
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